Kent Forrest

“The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .”
― Robert Alley

“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew”
― Bart D. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit? Yes. Settle? Not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. ... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve, and cherish, the pale blue dot; the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space